THE
LIFE OF
H
P Blavatsky
H
P BLAVATSKY’S
EARLY
LIFE
Helena Petrovna
Blavatsky was born Helena Petrovna Von Hahn on the night of 30/
Her father Peter
Alexeyevich von Hahn was an officer in the Russian Royal Horse Artillery. He
was descended from the Prussian aristocracy. Shortly after he married Helena
Andreyevna he was called into war and his wife returned to her parent' home
when their daughter Helena was born. Helena Andreyevna wrote novels concerning
restricted Russian women and was called the George Sand of
HPB and her mother and
sister Vera traveled in 1837 to the Russian
In 1838 the family moved
to
HPB’s mother died on 6th June 1842 when Helena was twelve,
but later Helena would say that her mother had died when she was a baby. The
question is why did Helena Blavatsky deny the
existence of her mother in her childhood. It is true that she grew from a
sickly baby into a problem child subjected to hysteria and convulsions. When
dying her mother observed sadly, "Ah well, perhaps it is best that I am
dying, so at least I shall be spared seeing what befalls Helena. Of one thing I
am certain, her life will not be that of other women, and she will have much to
suffer."
This statement that her
mother died when she was a baby seems to suggest that there was strife between
the mother and daughter. It indicates a conflict between the wills. That Helen
resented her mother's long absences, her intimate friendships in the bohemian
world of letters, and felt it as a desertion of the home and herself.
Her mother seemed to have hurt her pride.
One day when Helena was
four she was walking by the river bank with one of her nurses while a serf-boy
of fourteen followed them and annoyed Helena by pulling her perambutor.
She them imitated one of her father's roars threatening to have the russalkas tickle the boy to death. The boy being scarred, took to his heels over the river bank. He was not
seen again until fishermen discovered his dead body weeks later.
Her memory of this
incident is not surprising when view in perspective with other incidents of her
childhood. Those who took care of her, besides her parents, were serfs and
women who had learned and believed in superstitions. At the time Old
According to legend it
was believed that supernatural beings could be placated or even controlled by
people like
It was not that the
household servants thought that
change as a child because,
it seems, after the servant boy drowned, plus the attention she was receiving,
she felt she was powerful and invulnerable, and increasingly believed that
mighty forces would carry out her wishes. A belief that
seemed to permeate her life.
Her only happy childhood
memories seem to be between six and twelve in her father's army camps. She was
petted and spoiled as the enfant du regiment. She
tyrannized over her father's orderlies whom she preferred to her female nurses
and governesses. While being pampered she managed to pickup a smattering of
knowledge about shamans and magic which she put to good use later in life.
After the death of their
mother, at age 28,
Helena's first love
affair, at age 16, had been with Prince Alexander Galistin,
cousin to the Viceroy of the
When 17 she married
General Nicephore Blavatsky. There are several
stories for this marriage, but it seems to be that a governess had scolded
Actually he was around
forty when they married and outlived her. After three unhappy months of a
honeymoon, HPB managed to escape from the General's bodyguards and return to
her grandfather who was not glad to see her. Her quickly shipped her off to her
father, now retired and living near St. Petersburg, in charge of a maid and
three men servants, all of whom she escaped. Her father traveled two thousand
mile for nothing to meet her in
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